Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
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Buffalo Lithia Water
- Description
- [No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging.]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1880-1904
- maker
- Buffalo Lithia Spring Water Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1109
- catalog number
- 293320.1109
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Anti-Uric
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Treatment for rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago and general uric-acid conditions
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Anti-Uric Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1170
- catalog number
- 293320.1170
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils, ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, tetter, skin diseases, bilious, remittant and intermittant fevers, pains in the back, shoulders, heart and chest, liver and kidney troubles, stomach ache, jaundice, gout and fits, dizziness, colds and coughs, croup, palpitation of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, constipation, piles, worms
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1870-1890
- maker
- R. H. McDonald Drug Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1284
- catalog number
- 293320.1284
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Week's Kidney Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For complaints caused by a disordered state of the kidneys or bladder, backache, rheumatism, scalding or scanty urine, and for purifying the blood and cleansing the system
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- D. Weeks and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1286
- catalog number
- 293320.1286
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Steketee's Neuralgia Drops
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Neuralgia, rheumatism, kidney and liver complaints, chronic headache and pains in the back
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- George G. Steketee
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1381
- catalog number
- 293320.1381
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Kidnets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For backache, weak back, Bright's disease, weak kidneys, scalding urine, congestion of the kidneys and all kidney and bladder complaints
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Orator F. Woodward
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1202
- catalog number
- 293320.1202
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Renovator
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Cures dyspepsia, sick headache, loss of appetite, heartburn, depression, neuralgia, female disorders, liver complaint, constipation, indigestion, rheumatism, impure blood, jaundice, bilious attacks, fever and ague, and all diseases of the stomach, liver, kidneys and the blood
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1881-1906
- after 1881
- maker
- Healy & Bigelow
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1221
- catalog number
- 293320.1221
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- A sure cure for prolapsis uteris or falling of the womb and all female weaknesses, including leucorrhoea, irregular and painful menstruation, inflammation and ulceration of the womb, flooding, diseases of the kidneys. For all weakness of the generative organs of either sex, it is second to no remedy that has ever been before the public, and for all diseases of the kidneys it is the greatest remedy in the world.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1890
- after 1873
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1330
- catalog number
- 293320.1330
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- A diuretic to the kidneys
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1918
- after 1906
- maker
- Dr. Kilmer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1242
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1242
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Sirop Raifort Iode de Lancelot (Lancelot's Iodinised Syrup of Horseradish)
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- An old but highly esteemed French preparation, extensively used by and very beneficial to scrofulous, lymphatics, rachitics, syphilitics, etc. Also a tonic, stimulant, alterative, deobstruant and diuretic remedy.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1915
- before 1915
- maker
- E. Fougera and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1248
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1248
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center